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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 25

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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

Heart, Brain

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Men, Hands, Feet

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Passion, Mean, Mind

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Glory, Sweetness

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Law, Reason, Reasonable

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

Dog, Children, Earth

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

Death, Sadness, Mean

Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Painting, Eloquence

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Party, Wicked, Killing

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

Christian, Order, Doe

"The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Extremes, Regard, Ifs

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Self

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.128, Courier Corporation

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

Truth, Ideas, Invincible

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.120, Letcetera Publishing

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

Feelings, Suffering, Quality

Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

Men, Car, Style

'Pensèes' (1670) no. 29

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

Use, World, Opinion

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Differences, Facts, Reason

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Law, Lawyer, Force

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Life, Inability, Trouble

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

May, Cold, Appreciated

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

May God never abandon me.

May, Last Words, Abandon

Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Reason

Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

Men, Practice, Judging

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

Doubt, Doe, Reason

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

Thinking, Years, Mind

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.510

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